polisemie: rivista di poesia iper-contemporanea, III/2022 ISSN: 2634-1867 DOI: 10.31273/polisemie.v3.813 TEXTILE POETICS OF ENTANGLEMENT THE WORKS OF ANTONELLA ANEDDA AND MARIA LAI Adele Bardazzi «To be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack an independent, self-contained existence». 1 This is not some influencer’s statement on love and relationships, in which case the scroll on which I am stitching these words should simply be published on an Instagram post, a social medium that from the beginning has given priority to images over words, and that today is unable to keep up with its original exclusion of the latter. Rather, it is at the root of a broader reflection on the concept of «intra-action» as developed by feminist physicist Karen Barad in the opening of her Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. In a more recent piece, On Touching—the Inhuman That Therefore I Am, Barad re-asserts how inter – which stands for «among or in the midst of» – and intra – which stands for «(from) within» – point to a rather different understanding of relationships between entities as well as media: the latter disregards ideas of binary dichotomies, covering most scholarship on the relationship between words and images and within which the textile arts find themselves caught up. 2 It is an 1 Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Durham (NC), Duke University Press, 2007, p. ix. On the notion of «entangle- ment» and the closely connected notion of «agential realism» and how Barad conceptualises the relationship between discursive practices and the material world, see Id., pp. 71-94, 132-185; Karen Barad, Agential realism: feminist interventions in understanding scientific practices (1998), in The Science Studies Reader, ed. by Mario Biagioli, New York, Routledge, 1999, pp. 1-11; Karen Barad, Reconceiving scientific literacy as agential literacy, or learning how to intra-act responsibly within the world, in Doing Science + Culture, ed. by Sharon Traweek and Roddey Reid, New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. 221-258; Karen Barad, Re(con)figuring space, time, and matter, in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, ed. by Marianne DeKoven, New Brunswick, Rutgers Uni- versity Press, 2001, pp. 75-109. 2 See Victoria Mitchell, Textile, Text and Techne, in The Textile Reader, ed. by Jessica Hemmings, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012, pp. 5-13. Here Victoria Mitchell challenges the supposed superiority of language as an integral part to the formation of cognition. Similarly, in introductory